ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Considering behaviour to ensure the success of a disease control strategy.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- How the epidemiology of disease-resistant and disease-tolerant varieties affects grower behaviour.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
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- Kinship networks of seed exchange shape spatial patterns of plant virus diversity.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Evaluation of cultural control and resistance-breeding strategies for suppression of whitefly infestation of cassava at the landscape scale: a simulation modeling approach.Pest management science · 2020Article
- Expansion of the cassava brown streak pandemic in Uganda revealed by annual field survey data for 2004 to 2017.Scientific data · 2019Article
- Using models to provide rapid programme support for California's efforts to suppress Huanglongbing disease of citrus.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
The success or failure of a disease control strategy can be significantly affected by the behaviour of individual agents involved, influencing the effectiveness of disease control, its cost and sustainability. This behaviour has rarely been considered in agricultural systems, where there is significant opportunity for impact. Efforts to increase the adoption of control while decreasing oscillations in adoption and yield, particularly through the administration of subsidies, could increase the effectiveness of interventions. We study individual behaviour for the deployment of clean seed systems to control cassava brown streak disease in East Africa, noting that high disease pressure is important to stimulate grower demand of the control strategy. We show that it is not necessary to invest heavily in formal promotional or educational campaigns, as word-of-mouth is often sufficient to endorse the system. At the same time, for improved planting material to have an impact on increasing yields, it needs to be of a sufficient standard to restrict epidemic spread significantly. Finally, even a simple subsidy of clean planting material may be effective in disease control, as well as reducing oscillations in adoption, as long as it reaches a range of different users every season.
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